Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-13
MARTINS FERRY.

On Friday evening a very pleasant sur
prise party was rendered Miss Beta Sheets
at the home of her parents, in honor OF
her fourteenth birthday. The affair was a
success throughout, Miss Beta having re-
ceived not the slightest warning of the in
tentiOns of her friends. She was the reclp-
lent of q handsome Bible and q gold pen
from those present. A general good time
was INDUCED in, and the happy party dis
organized Mt II NJ, after ~partaking OF
bounteOus refreshments. Those in attend
ance were: Misses Gertie Hanes, Bessie
| Brady, Annie Newland, Mary Thomas,
Edna Crowell. Ella lnglebright, Katie
Greer, Minnie Cox, Jessie Sheets, and
Messrs. James Brown, Will link, Rush
| Wilson, Grant Henderson, George lngle-
bright, Ben Exley, Wal Griffith, Charlie
Snedeker, James RalStnn. Ed. lia"ltOrd
and Ernest SIuith.
DIR. J. NJ. Blackford entertained the
wound married folks on Friday night.
Those present were: DIR. and Mrs. o. Il.
long. Judge and Mrs. John 5. Cochran,
MIR. and Mrs. w. III. Wood, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. NJ. Sheets, Mr.. and Mrs. J. i. Giles
pie, Mrs. Z. G.. Boyd, Mrs. f. ID. Cattell,
DIR. and Mrs. w. III. Hall, Mr.. VIM. K.
} Ratcliff.
Rev. f. F. Walker left yesterday for
Marietta, to assist Rev. ID. Il. Updegratt,
of Mt. Pleaeaut, in q series OF meetings IN
progress ut that place.
Rev. Robinson, the African missionary,
will fill Rev. Walkers pulpit at the
! Presbyterian Church during that gentle
mans absence.
The Union Cornet Band, of Ktnaville,
gave a successful concert i'll Lafayette
Hall last night.
Mr.. William Coates and several other
gentlemen, mentioned i'll Il cOmmunica-
ton to your paper last week, wish to say
that they object very much to such peo-
pie Us the ones wrote the article making
horse opera of their names. Several OF
those mentioned were not present, and
desire your reporter to contradict the
statements made concerning them.
Tomorrow night q musical and literary
entertainment will be given in Lafayette
Hall for the benefit of the WOmen's EN-
change of Wheeling. The affair will be
conducted by Wheeling and Martins Fer
~ talent and will beyond a doubt be a
grand success.
J. X. Pickens has sold his dairy wagon
aud outfit to Mr.. Harry Pickens, who will
continue the business.
One large office room for rent in COM
mercial Block, fronting on Hanover street.
Call ut Commercial Bank. Gray, Smith
| 4 Co.
Yesterday the Blue Grass Fishing Club,
in consideration of past tavorS, presented
John Kyne, the popular proprietor of the
| I3tna House, in ftnayille, with An ele-
gant pair of glass bells and set OF nobby
tumblers, John was appraised of their
coming and had the ball cleared out and
ready for a reception. Dan Cline, on be-
half of the club, presented the bells and
tumblers, and was responded to by Mr..
Kvne, after which two or three hours
were spent in i~Olifying.
Lizzie Helling, Mr.. Charles Helling'S
cleven-year-old daughter, entertained II
number of her young friends in honor of
her eleventh birthday. The evening was
very pleasantly spent, and the affair
highly enjoyed by the young folks.
James A. Gray's condition remains I'M
changed.
Yesterday the Buckeye Glass Works set
pots, and among the Others taken from the
| furnace was one which has been in use
eight months. The pot was so badly
sunken that it had to be broken to pieces
with bars before it could be gotten out.
There are several other pots Of the same
aye in the furnace which still look like
they would stand some time yet.
Harry, a three-year-Old son of David
Paxton, died yesterday morning of mem
branOuS Group. The remains will be buried
i'm Weeks cemetery at | p. III. to-day.
The Fannie MOuntcastle Dramatic Com
bination will hold the boards ut Lafayette
Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday nights,
in Led Astray' and "A Dangerous WO-
man."